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"Erase All Contents and Settings" is the only button you need to push on a T2 (or later) Mac, and it is the factory reset button. It will unlock the device.
by coder543 4y ago
"Erase All Contents and Settings" is the only button you need to push on a T2 (or later) Mac, and it is the factory reset button.
It will unlock the device.
- p_l 4y agoI have physical proof on my hands. It's possible that they fixed it in later version of the OS, but factory reset is what the reseller did with previous owner, and it did not wipe FMM registration, leaving the laptop half-stuck in terms of ownership - I only figured it out trying to register FMM to myself.
- coder543 4y agoThings were harder in older versions of macOS, but you can read step 2 yourself: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 Any T2 Mac or newer requires only that button to be pressed, and then click through the wizard to complete the process. If someone is running outdated macOS, they won't have that button at all, since older versions of macOS required you to format computers the hard way using recovery mode, which didn't handle activation lock concerns. You can also read this document: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208987 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208987 "Other ways to disable Activation Lock" "Activation Lock is disabled when you use the Erase All Content and Settings feature." which confirms the same thing. The experience that people have is very simple these days.
- p_l 4y agoYeah, this was fixed, supposedly, on Monterey. Which still leaves considerable amount of laptops with broken FMM registrations in T2. Especially since it was upgrading to Catalina, iirc, that started problems.